Canadiana Serials
“The Serials collection includes a wide range of dailies, weeklies, specialized journals and mass-market magazines, as well as city directories and annual reports from churches, schools, and corporations. Specialized publications include trade or industry journals in addition to popular magazines catering to various demographics: men, women, students, children, and diverse ethnolinguistic communities. Early periodicals are an invaluable source of information for researchers in all fields, as they offer a remarkable record of thought and opinion on diverse issues facing society. Lavishly-illustrated journals open a captivating window onto early Canadian society and culture through their articles, advertisements, cartoons, drawings and photographs.” (Description taken from the data provider website)
Projected size: 1,700 periodical titles with 95,000 issues; 255 annual titles with 1,100 issues; 330 newspaper titles on 2,000 reels of film.
Selection criteria: Serials contains annuals up to 1900, periodicals up to 1920 and newspapers up to 1930. The periodicals subset draws heavily on the Early Canadian Periodicals project, which worked closely with an Advisory Committee to determine the collection parameters and scanning priorities.”
Description taken from the data provider website.
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General Information
Added to the Research Data: October 2019
Last update: October 2019
Update periodicity: No update plans at the moment
Available formats: PDF
Documents’ assets available? No
Documents’ metadata available? No
Data size: 405Gb
Number of files: 80,085
Copyright: The Data and any related documentation remains under the exclusive property of the copyright owners or their assigns and are protected by the Canadian Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42) or by any other applicable copyright law
Data Subject Area: Canadiana Serials contains canadians annuals up to 1900, periodicals up to 1920 and newspapers up to 1930. The oldest documents date back to the end of the 18th century.
The Data in Graphs
All content in “Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)” dataset is in PDF format, a proprietary format. The files in this dataset do not contain metadata.
The Data Structure
The files are named according to an unknown naming convention. Each PDF should corresponds to one different edition of the resource.
PDF Availability
All documents are available in PDF format.
Full-text availability
Full text is available in PDFs. The original documents have been OCRised, but note that this process is not perfect, especially for old documents that have deteriorated over time and whose text layout and fonts are not always standard.
Metadata Availability
The files have no metadata, but some metadata were extracted from the data provider’s site and assembled into a TSV file that is available with the other files of this dataset. No quality control of the extracted metadata was performed.
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